“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
Are we “the most highly educated laity in the history of the church” capable of making our moral decisions without substantive Church guidance … or are we idiots who can’t figure out what “dew” is?
Suggestion #6: After high school, don’t send your child to an art college.
They failed to realize that one cannot simply “sit down over tea and crumpets” and VOTE INTO BEING the Church calendar. It’s supposed to develop organically.
The Doylestown Comfort Choir
On Epiphany and calendars – proclaiming dates for 2014 and wondering why Eastern Orthodox dates are different.
“The priest would listen to this heavenly music over and over, crying while listening to it. He was brought great comfort through the ministry of this music. He passed away earlier this fall.”
Pope Francis is no Judas Iscariot!
In which Andrew’s wife Julie writes about the joys of being a music director’s wife at Christmas.
Divine Worship as a Formula for Peace
Have a blessed Christmas, and know the Light of Christ shines upon you and dwells within you!
Any good we are able to accomplish here at Corpus Christi Watershed is only thanks to your kindness and generosity!
The connection between the Feast of the Nativity and the Feast of St. Stephen.
Of Advent Wreathes & Christmas Crèches
Mæstro Edmund Murray directs a special Festival at Our Lady of Atonement in San Antonio, TX.
As a child growing up in the 1970s, I was well aware of the utter incompetence I was hearing on Sundays. As you can tell, I am still pretty upset about it.
If we want our apostolate or our daily round of duties to be fruitful, we need to begin and end with the continually burning fire of adoring union with God.
“In the United States we have a very healthy understanding of liturgy. We know something about liturgy, and I think we’re doing it rather well.” — Bishop Trautman (October 2005)
Explaining how to handle death at so many funerals.
“Fr. Morganroth would return to his room to play his piano — he played brilliantly. If you had an appointment with him he would leave the door ajar. You were to simply push the door open and take a seat in a chair next to the piano.”
Doug Shadle has published an article on the Catholic Mass Propers.
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
Why should something invented in 1968 be “preferred” to the immemorial tradition of the Catholic Church?
What is the purpose of a Procession? Is this statement true?
Finally, English-speakers will able to read Hildebrand’s examination of the splendor of beauty.
In my humble opinion, Pope Francis is spot on.
